Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Why Writers Are Full of S*** (And Why We Have To Be)

Image is key to a writer's success. Yet this drive to fictionalise ourselves has become a toxic necessity. Worse still, it perpetuates harmful myths to incoming talent

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Alec Worley
Jul 21, 2022
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A few years ago, I took a stab at telling the truth.

I’d just been commissioned by a major tie-in publisher to write a novella for a grimdark sci-fi anthology. I considered myself an old pro when it came to comics, but still felt like a noob when it came to prose, despite having written three Judge Anderson novellas and a bunch of shor…

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